Dynamic: CDS419

This is the third CD of Campagnoli’s music recorded by Dynamic. Bartolomeo Campagnoli was born in Cento (near Bologna) in 1751 and died in Neusterlitz in 1827. Trained at the school of Tartini and later of Nardini, he had a dazzling career as a concert performer. In 1776 he moved to Germany, working in various cities (Freising, Dresden, Leipzig). In Leipzig he published his famous Violin Method, which soon became popular throughout Europe.

The present 2-CD box set features the Sei Fughe per violino solo Op. 10 and the Divertimenti per l’esercizio delle sette principali posizioni Op. 18. These works prove that two fundamental elements are found in Campagnoli’s music: a technical-pedagogical and an artistic one; two elements that are blended to the point that no one can be said to prevail upon the other: a sort of full-range exploration of the expressive potentiality of the violin’s fingerboard.